"The road was a ribbon of moonlight"..."Pursuers and pursued flew on, over an endless sea"..."There was a Helen before there was a War"..."There are no Magicians"..."And you say ok the bridge or someplace later"...

Friday, March 8, 2013

Harry M. Musick, book and flea market maven, student of philosophy, U.S. Marine, author of just one published chapbook of prose and poetry: "Poems For The Abnormal Mind" (Soap Box Publishing, Stamford Connecticut, 1978). Here are three excerpts:

The nights were cold, and the moon left shadows of forthcoming danger. Lurking in the darkness half starved animals waited silently for their prey. Howls from dying beasts saturated the silence. Fits of laughter echoed from the mouths of mindless men.

The mortal chose to sit on the mountain for eternity. He composed songs. He sang to the goddess. The music with a magic melody drifted to earth, compelling other mortals to conquer other peaks only to find that nothing existed but their own madness.

a river of blood
of human infamy
meandering
through a forest
with black
leafless trees
towering
toward the dark,
the starless heavens,
sprouting branches
upward
away
from a scarlet sea.
Each tree
a huge bulk
of stone
bled its guts
upon the foam
which bubbled

About Me

Born in Phila. Local schools / Temple U... M.A.(5/64), Ph.D.(2/68), SUNY Buffalo. LANDSCAPE OF CONTEMPORARY CINEMA (co-author, Leon Lewis),1967; short film, MAXIMUS TO HIMSELF, based on Charles Olson poem (co-director, Theodora Cichy), original in Natl. Archives, BFI. Lecturer, U. of Hull, 67-68. Documentary play, The Case of Ezra Pound, published 1970 (Anglo-Welsh Review). Resigned tenured post, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, in 1972, and began to write full-time. A dozen books/chapbooks of poetry published inc., THE HORSES OF GWYDDNO GARANHIR(76), HEART ATTACK and SPANISH SONGS(81), MERMAIDS parts I and II(86), SHE WANTS TO GO TO PAGO-PAGO(86), GLIMPSES OF INDIA and NEPAL(88), TAHITIAN JOURNALS(90), FROM THE SOUTH SEAS(97), THE MANA OF THE MOAI(Spanner #41, 04). Anthology appearances include NEW POETRY 3 (1977), THE SPANUAL (77), FOOLS HOUSE(80), MATIERES ANGLETERRE(84), FABER BOOK OF MOVIE VERSE(93), THE STILL HORIZON(02), IN THE COMPANY OF POETS(03). Numerous essays/reviews published in U.S. and UK. Editor-publisher, Branch Redd Review (poetry journal) & Branch Redd Books. early archive @ Beinecke.